USA, Canada /
My personal (Polish) view on USA. [105]
Witek, you sound like many newcomers, who are disillusioned with America because they thought, the streets are paved in gold here. They are not. It has always been just a land of opportunity and still is. I just celebrated my 27th year (May 10th) since i landed at O'Hare. Very young with a suitcase in my hand. My sister came 5 years before me, so at least I had someone to lean on. When she came, she was all alone. Yet, she's made and I made it. No parents, no cousins, no uncles. We are the first generation and the last. We both married but had no time for kids. She is still married however, I'm not.
When you are going to be here that long you will have a different look on life. You (your parents) came here not because they felt like changing a country and start from scratch. You just need to drop your occasional cocky attitude, otherwise you seem like a nice young man :) So there.
How can even people dare to call such a tragedy a "shooting festival". This is a big country and things happen... shootings, poverty, money, power... However, I can still feel safe here more than when I last visited Poland. Even my family did not want me to travel on the train alone. I visited most of the states here traveling by car, day and night, stopping in small towns and besides wonderful people on my way I met not evil.
And this is my 27 years of experience. So, all the America bashers - beat it.
